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The Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1

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A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 8 - Full Frontal Nudity
    8.6/10(1360 votes)

    S1:E8

    Featuring an art critic, some hermits, Hell's Grannies and the dead parrot sketch. Some newlyweds attempt to buy a bed and the mafia offer protecting to the army.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  2. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 3 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
    8.5/10(1565 votes)

    S1:E3

    Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.

    Directors:Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  3. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 9 - The Ant, An Introduction
    8.3/10(1246 votes)

    S1:E9

    Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  4. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 12 - The Naked Ant
    8.3/10(1172 votes)

    S1:E12

    Featuring the North Minehead by-election, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, Ken Shabby and a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Wood Party.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  5. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 5 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
    8.1/10(1327 votes)

    S1:E5

    Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, an erotic film, a silly job interview and a burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones

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  6. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 1 - Whither Canada?
    7.9/10(1858 votes)

    S1:E1

    Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson, a cycling race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.

    Directors:Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones

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  7. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 4 - Owl Stretching Time
    7.9/10(1342 votes)

    S1:E4

    Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA. An Edwardian man struggles to undress on the beach.

    Directors:Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  8. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 6 - It's the Arts
    7.9/10(1271 votes)

    S1:E6

    Featuring a gang of legal burglars, the Whizzo Quality Assortment, a Scottish wedding and a day in the life of a city stockbroker. Some film moguls try to impress their boss.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  9. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 13 - Intermission
    7.9/10(1107 votes)

    S1:E13

    Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  10. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 2 - Sex and Violence
    7.7/10(1529 votes)

    S1:E2

    Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage guidance counsellor, a working-class playwright and The Wrestling Epilogue.

    Directors:Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  11. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 7 - Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
    7.7/10(1288 votes)

    S1:E7

    Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  12. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 11 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
    7.7/10(1150 votes)

    S1:E11

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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  13. Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 Episode 10 - Untitled
    7.6/10(1153 votes)

    S1:E10

    Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.

    Director:Ian MacNaughton
    Writers:Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Full Frontal Nudity" is the best rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" season 1. It scored 8.6/10 based on 1360 votes. Directed by Ian MacNaughton and written by Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, it aired on 12/7/1969. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away".